Republican lawmakers friendly to Donald Trump want Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) removed from her leadership post.
“It’s at a boiling point,” one Republican lawmaker told The Hill. “This isn’t about Liz Cheney wanting to impeach Donald Trump; this isn’t about Donald Trump at all. It’s about Liz Cheney being completely out of synch with the majority of our conference.”
Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House, has taken heat from within the party since her vote to impeach. She has been criticized for consistently condemning the...
“It’s at a boiling point,” one Republican lawmaker told The Hill. “This isn’t about Liz Cheney wanting to impeach Donald Trump; this isn’t about Donald Trump at all. It’s about Liz Cheney being completely out of synch with the majority of our conference.”
Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House, has taken heat from within the party since her vote to impeach. She has been criticized for consistently condemning the...
- 5/1/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Liberals are tempted to rejoice in Palin's candidacy. But as Michael Tomasky argues, we should all dread the effect of her torrent of lies and demagoguery on our politics.
The real sign that Sarah Palin was finally serious about running for president, missed by most, came in early May and was thus buried under the news of the bin Laden killing. But it was then that Ben Smith of Politico first reported that Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, her longtime advisers on foreign policy, had fired her, and she'd decided in their stead to shack up with an associate of Andrew Breitbart named Peter Schweizer. Why did this, to the initiated, signal her "seriousness" about running? Precisely because linking arms with Breitbart-world was such an utterly superficial and unserious move, wholly political in nature, and perfectly in keeping with everything we know about the old high-school-basketball-playing elbow-flinger's notion of how one advances in this world.
The real sign that Sarah Palin was finally serious about running for president, missed by most, came in early May and was thus buried under the news of the bin Laden killing. But it was then that Ben Smith of Politico first reported that Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, her longtime advisers on foreign policy, had fired her, and she'd decided in their stead to shack up with an associate of Andrew Breitbart named Peter Schweizer. Why did this, to the initiated, signal her "seriousness" about running? Precisely because linking arms with Breitbart-world was such an utterly superficial and unserious move, wholly political in nature, and perfectly in keeping with everything we know about the old high-school-basketball-playing elbow-flinger's notion of how one advances in this world.
- 5/27/2011
- by Michael Tomasky
- The Daily Beast
Before telling Fox News that Obama's State of the Union contained a "Wtf" moment (watch below), her SarahPAC reported a wave of small donations after the November election. Shushannah Walshe on the Fec disclosure-and why Michele Bachmann never cashed Palin's check.
During the normally sleepy post-election period, SarahPAC, Sarah Palin's political action committee, raised more than $275,000 from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31, 2010, according to its latest Federal Election Commission report released Wednesday. That brings her total to $3.5 million for the year.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Palin Kills It in Gun Country
She has $1.3 million available cash on hand, and almost all of the money came from individual donors, in amounts less than $200, highlighting her populist appeal even during a non-election cycle. Only eight of the more than 600 donations were for $1,000 or more. In the same period, the Pac spent nearly $230,000. In comparison, potential 2012 rival Mitt Romney hauled in $5.1 million last year.
During the normally sleepy post-election period, SarahPAC, Sarah Palin's political action committee, raised more than $275,000 from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31, 2010, according to its latest Federal Election Commission report released Wednesday. That brings her total to $3.5 million for the year.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Palin Kills It in Gun Country
She has $1.3 million available cash on hand, and almost all of the money came from individual donors, in amounts less than $200, highlighting her populist appeal even during a non-election cycle. Only eight of the more than 600 donations were for $1,000 or more. In the same period, the Pac spent nearly $230,000. In comparison, potential 2012 rival Mitt Romney hauled in $5.1 million last year.
- 1/27/2011
- by Shushannah Walshe
- The Daily Beast
Sarah Palin is packing her bags. Preparing for a 2012 campaign (perhaps), she has set her eyes on Britain and Israel, with a quick stop first in Haiti.
For a presidential candidate to be taken seriously, the first trip abroad is a rite of political passage. Ideally, it shows the candidate comfortable on the world stage, against some kind of symbolic setting.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How to Make Your Trip Run Smoothly
Although it took a while before he decided on a setting, Barack Obama drew his biggest, loudest crowd in Berlin with a rousing speech during the 2008 election. And while George W. Bush might not have had too many stamps in his passport before he took office, there were at least a few trips to Mexico and one visit to Israel in 1998. Until now, Palin's travel outside the U.S. included visiting American troops in Germany and...
For a presidential candidate to be taken seriously, the first trip abroad is a rite of political passage. Ideally, it shows the candidate comfortable on the world stage, against some kind of symbolic setting.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How to Make Your Trip Run Smoothly
Although it took a while before he decided on a setting, Barack Obama drew his biggest, loudest crowd in Berlin with a rousing speech during the 2008 election. And while George W. Bush might not have had too many stamps in his passport before he took office, there were at least a few trips to Mexico and one visit to Israel in 1998. Until now, Palin's travel outside the U.S. included visiting American troops in Germany and...
- 12/10/2010
- by Shushannah Walshe
- The Daily Beast
Sarah Palin is planning her first real foreign trip-a move that could burnish her foreign policy credentials in advance of a 2012 presidential run.
The Daily Beast has learned that Sarah Palin will be traveling overseas in the new year. At the top of the list: Israel and England, both countries she has said she wanted to travel to in the past. The schedule and itinerary is still fluid, but an overseas trip in 2011 will boost her foreign policy credentials, something she can turn to in a potential 2012 presidential run.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin: Her Year
Up to now Palin's travel outside of North America includes visiting troops in Germany and Kuwait while she was governor and last year she gave a speech on the economy in Hong Kong. During the 2008 campaign, there was some confusion about whether she had also visited Iraq when traveling to see soldiers in Kuwait,...
The Daily Beast has learned that Sarah Palin will be traveling overseas in the new year. At the top of the list: Israel and England, both countries she has said she wanted to travel to in the past. The schedule and itinerary is still fluid, but an overseas trip in 2011 will boost her foreign policy credentials, something she can turn to in a potential 2012 presidential run.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin: Her Year
Up to now Palin's travel outside of North America includes visiting troops in Germany and Kuwait while she was governor and last year she gave a speech on the economy in Hong Kong. During the 2008 campaign, there was some confusion about whether she had also visited Iraq when traveling to see soldiers in Kuwait,...
- 12/9/2010
- by Shushannah Walshe
- The Daily Beast
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